Monthly Archives for July 2011
→ Elgan: Why Twitter is obsolete
Mike Elgan on Computerworld argues Twitter’s use case is going to be absorbed by the broader, multi-functional Google+: Suddenly, however, the service has been rendered obsolete by Googles new Google+ service, and also by the companys failure to capitalize on … Continue reading
→ Google+ is the social backbone
Must read post by Edd Dumbill on O’Reilly Radar, striking on many points which I firmly believe in.
→ Will Spotify Force The Music Industry To Adjust?
David Johnson, commenting about Spotify: The combination of a high quality user experience, a business model that provides value to the long-suffering music labels and the length and depth of the labels’ suffering to this point suggests that it is … Continue reading
→ The Frontiers of Platform Adoption
An update on Asymco’s Horace Dediu’s brilliant “Race to a Billion” chart. I would love to see this for other web platforms such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter… and now Google Plus (which reached 10 million users in just a few weeks). … Continue reading
→ Behavioral Grouping is Essential for the Evolution of the Social Graph
The Lifestream Blog’s Mark Krynsky hightlights the potential of apps like Katango to help us build smart friend groups, which in turn will help us sift through the noise more effectively: Behavior across networks has shown that most people don’t … Continue reading